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loukrazy | 4 years ago | on: NocoDB – Turn your SQL database into a Nocode platform

These sorts of tools make me think of Lotus Notes or Access applications. Didn’t couchbase do some self hosted UX as well?

loukrazy | 4 years ago | on: Rost – Write rust code in German

Could we rewrite German in Rust to make it faster?

loukrazy | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

As is Amazon

loukrazy | 4 years ago | on: Texas abortion law has tech workers reconsidering moving to the state

Is Austin much cheaper than Washington these days? I have not looked in 4 years

loukrazy | 4 years ago | on: China on the Cusp of a 'Profound Transformation'

If there is no peaceful transfer of power then you are incentivized to never give up power

loukrazy | 4 years ago | on: Java's records, Lombok's data, and Kotlin's data classes

Isn’t the point that Record classes will be able to be upgraded to value types easily once Valhalla is done? Or am I missing something

loukrazy | 4 years ago | on: Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure

If you make changes to a large shared module, is it your responsibility to chase down each and every usage of it? For example if you are upgrading a dependency due to a somewhat breaking security issue such as Jackson 2.8->2.12

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: France reports three new cases of thrombosis, more deaths after AstraZeneca jabs

There is evidence that the Pfizer vaccine is still effective at least 6 months later https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/04/01/pfizer...

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: Religious fervour is migrating into politics

Seems like religiosity is a neurological need, but church is not. With organized religion decreasing in various countries, I wonder where people will get their outlets for social and metaphysical needs previously supplied by churches.

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: The Two Classes of Software Engineer

I remember I only understood C once I wrote a memory allocator in assembly in my Computer Architecture course

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: Six Dr Seuss books pulled over racist imagery

I feel like the more sane way to do this is to add disclaimers / explanations at the beginning ala Disney Plus or others

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: QAnon Is Destroying the GOP from Within

His point that conspiracy theories are acting as a substitute for religious community and purpose is interesting. I guess there are a number of different belief systems that can fill a void of purpose.

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers

Not to mention the cost of X more servers for a year is probably less costly than the developer time of optimization and the opportunity cost.

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: Accelerating TensorFlow Performance on Mac

The charts are comparing “accelerated” performance versus what appears to be a cpu only baseline. It is not clear which M1 hardware beyond the CPU is used

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste

A way better write up than this fluff piece: https://www.wired.com/story/are-radioactive-diamond-batterie...

loukrazy | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Ion

Depends on the part of Amazon but it is pretty prevalent in Retail. The fact that it is both binary and self describing makes it pretty good for data at rest. You can still parse and understand that archival transaction data from 8 years ago.

The support for S-Expressions is both a blessing and a curse. The ability to write logic with native data structures in it is fundamentally interesting, but it leads to lots of reinvention of somewhat crappy Lisp implementations.

The tooling ecosystem has been slowly improving outside of JVM, particularly the latest JS implementation.

In a vacuum, the support for type annotations, timestamps, decimals and binary serialization make it superior to JSON for use cases where self describing data is appropriate.

loukrazy | 6 years ago | on: How Long Will macOS Be Unix?

It really seems that the bigger risk is that they will sacrifice the simplicity of iOS to shoehorn the iPad into productivity use cases

loukrazy | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?

Having a single wiki instance for your company is an awesome way to collect knowledge. You can write up operation run books, design documents, references all in an informal way.

loukrazy | 6 years ago | on: Questioning the Lambda Architecture (2014)

Isn’t this basically part of CQRS?

loukrazy | 6 years ago | on: Oracle VP: Data would be safer if most OSS distributed databases didn't exist

You would have less leaks with Oracle because you would not be able to afford the database in the first place. Can’t leak anything if it’s not stored